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Fifth Business Study Guide

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by Robertson Davies
About 113 pages (33,958 words)
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"Percy had been throwing snowballs at me, from time to time, and I had ducked them all; I had a boy's sense of when a snowball was coming, and I knew Percy. I was sure that he would try to land one last, insulting snowball between my shoulders before I ducked into our house." Chapter I, pg. 5

"Falling, she burst into nervous tears, and suddenly there she was, on the ground, with her husband kneeling before her, holding her in his arms and speaking to her in terms of endearment that were strange and embarrassing to me; I had never heard married people - or any people - speak in unashamedly loving words before. I knew that I was watching a 'scene,' and my parents had always warned against scenes as very serious breaches of propriety.".....

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